Carothers and Guns

EMCEE said:
What did you think? I’ve used Elftmann drop-ins on 3 or 4 builds and love them. I’ve only used a couple of other brands though, so don’t have much to compare to. 🤷🏻
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It’s pretty damn light with a super short reset. Kinda reminded me of a Geissele SSP but with that drop in trigger feel if that makes any sense. The AR9 trigger was built for speed for sure
 
Yoko inspired me to get some orange TT. 10/10

This 22-250 is a bit retro at this point! Last outing with it was years ago when it put 5 inside the width of my thumb at 380 yards.

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Here’s one for you guys running red dot or green dot sights. After a ton of research (that means watching a bunch of YouTube videos), I bought a Holosun 507C with the Vulcan ACSS reticle in green. About 15 years ago, give or take, I had lasic/laser eye surgery. Immediately following the surgery and ever since, I have a problem seeing green light without a halo/double image effect. Blue Christmas tree lights are the worst, each light is a cluster of multiple lights. Green is not as bad but noticeable distortion. A green traffic light appears to me to have a racetrack shape, basically 1 light about 2X the width. I’ve come to not even notice it any more when driving unless I stop and think about it.

Red is fine. Red traffic lights are pretty much round, but with a little starburst lines vertically now. After all my “research” I somehow still thought green would be the better choice (I also looked at a red one in person and thought it was a little blurry).

It was about 5 seconds after having the green one out of the box I realized I’d made a mistake. The little chevron image looked like 3 overlapping images all blurred together. Kind of like a little mountain range of green peaks.

I’m returning it and exchanging for red. I’m hoping the red is just a single image I can just run a little brighter.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Anyone else out there with specific preference for green or red after laser eye surgery?
 
TRfromMT said:
Here’s one for you guys running red dot or green dot sights. After a ton of research (that means watching a bunch of YouTube videos), I bought a Holosun 507C with the Vulcan ACSS reticle in green. About 15 years ago, give or take, I had lasic/laser eye surgery. Immediately following the surgery and ever since, I have a problem seeing green light without a halo/double image effect. Blue Christmas tree lights are the worst, each light is a cluster of multiple lights. Green is not as bad but noticeable distortion. A green traffic light appears to me to have a racetrack shape, basically 1 light about 2X the width. I’ve come to not even notice it any more when driving unless I stop and think about it.

Red is fine. Red traffic lights are pretty much round, but with a little starburst lines vertically now. After all my “research” I somehow still thought green would be the better choice (I also looked at a red one in person and thought it was a little blurry).

It was about 5 seconds after having the green one out of the box I realized I’d made a mistake. The little chevron image looked like 3 overlapping images all blurred together. Kind of like a little mountain range of green peaks.

I’m returning it and exchanging for red. I’m hoping the red is just a single image I can just run a little brighter.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Anyone else out there with specific preference for green or red after laser eye surgery?
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I had lasik, but the halo effect I experience is less pronounced than what you're describing. Red definitely has less distortion for me.
 
TRfromMT said:
Here’s one for you guys running red dot or green dot sights. After a ton of research (that means watching a bunch of YouTube videos), I bought a Holosun 507C with the Vulcan ACSS reticle in green. About 15 years ago, give or take, I had lasic/laser eye surgery. Immediately following the surgery and ever since, I have a problem seeing green light without a halo/double image effect. Blue Christmas tree lights are the worst, each light is a cluster of multiple lights. Green is not as bad but noticeable distortion. A green traffic light appears to me to have a racetrack shape, basically 1 light about 2X the width. I’ve come to not even notice it any more when driving unless I stop and think about it.

Red is fine. Red traffic lights are pretty much round, but with a little starburst lines vertically now. After all my “research” I somehow still thought green would be the better choice (I also looked at a red one in person and thought it was a little blurry).

It was about 5 seconds after having the green one out of the box I realized I’d made a mistake. The little chevron image looked like 3 overlapping images all blurred together. Kind of like a little mountain range of green peaks.

I’m returning it and exchanging for red. I’m hoping the red is just a single image I can just run a little brighter.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Anyone else out there with specific preference for green or red after laser eye surgery?
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I had PRK which is notorious for making people see "starbursting" or "halo-ing" lights. White and green gave me the most distortion for maybe 6 months after the surgery. Maybe once in a blue moon I will still get distortion with white at night (13 years later). Red, though, never distorted once my vision stabilized.

If there's a physicist in the crowd, please correct my layman's description... But mil/police use red dots/lasers/light lenses because of its low frequency and lower visible "splash." A red light dot is easier to make "crisp" close-up because you aren't seeing the "splash" from the imperfection in the glass or the diode projection.

Green has a higher frequency and amplifies for more detail because you can see the light "splashing" from the imperfections. If you think of the old-school night vision using IR light: very low detail because the the low energy light isn't bouncing around. Newer night vision using green as the visible light: more detail due to more energy bouncing around. Gen IV night vision is all white and you can identify people at a distance and read a book.

Sorry for the childlike and long description just to say: red is your best bet.

And I run an Aimpoint T2. Greens "splash" for me.
 
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TRfromMT said:
Here’s one for you guys running red dot or green dot sights. After a ton of research (that means watching a bunch of YouTube videos), I bought a Holosun 507C with the Vulcan ACSS reticle in green. About 15 years ago, give or take, I had lasic/laser eye surgery. Immediately following the surgery and ever since, I have a problem seeing green light without a halo/double image effect. Blue Christmas tree lights are the worst, each light is a cluster of multiple lights. Green is not as bad but noticeable distortion. A green traffic light appears to me to have a racetrack shape, basically 1 light about 2X the width. I’ve come to not even notice it any more when driving unless I stop and think about it.

Red is fine. Red traffic lights are pretty much round, but with a little starburst lines vertically now. After all my “research” I somehow still thought green would be the better choice (I also looked at a red one in person and thought it was a little blurry).

It was about 5 seconds after having the green one out of the box I realized I’d made a mistake. The little chevron image looked like 3 overlapping images all blurred together. Kind of like a little mountain range of green peaks.

I’m returning it and exchanging for red. I’m hoping the red is just a single image I can just run a little brighter.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Anyone else out there with specific preference for green or red after laser eye surgery?
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I had PRK many years ago and prefer green for dots but etched reticles are best for me.
 
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My expensive new rifle likes cheap ammo. Clover leafed the cheapest box I tried. Everything else is over an inch. Could be me, but my redneck rig setup was very steady. Gives me mixed feelings…diminishing returns and all that. But my ears will thank me hunting suppressed finally.

(3 shot group warning. Close your eyes Max!)
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It has a nice trigger. My trusty old A-bolt has a heavy trigger in comparison, but shoots cheap Rem Core-Lokt 3/4” groups. Old faithful.
 
Took my new (to me, recently purchased used) .22 to the range today and shot a couple boxes. So far I'm liking it muchly. The trigger is superb.

Shot a few 50 and 100 yard groups. Excited to see what it'll do with premium ammo and me getting back into the swing of things.

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Looking into gun safes. I'm not interested in liberty, they're a total no- go for me.

I'm reading up on all the burglary/security ratings and the 3rd party tested fire ratings.

I can probably swing around $4k-$6k.

I'm actually leaning towards a cheaper safe and an larger insurance policy.
 
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carnifex knifeworks said:
Looking into gun safes. I'm not interested in liberty, they're a total no- go for me.

I'm reading up on all the burglary/security ratings and the 3rd party tested fire ratings.

I can probably swing around $4k-$6k.

I'm actually leaning towards a cheaper safe and an larger insurance policy.
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I had this same internal debate and ended up purchasing a high quality security safe instead of a fire-safe. It's primarily keeping unwanted hands out and theft that I'm concerned about and a security safe accomplishes that for me. There isn't anything inside for me that isn't relatively easy to replace with an insurance payout in the case of a fire, but that may be different for you. I also plan to move sometime in the next 5-8 years so I didn't want to have to move a gun safe. My security safe only weighs around 120 lbs so it's easy enough to move. I also saved several thousand dollars that I could spend on something more fun than a fire safe :) Obviously you decide what's important to you, I just wanted to share some food for thought in case any of these same things apply to you. Good luck!
 
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